Why do people have to see the belief, faith, and trust in Jesus--the one way to get to heaven---as being a negative thing? I would think that having only one way and knowing it would be much easier than several different ones.
Why is Christian faith so hard of a concept to grasp, to understand, to follow, to believe? Do people not put faith in airplanes and tires, other drivers and other man-made things everyday. All of these are made by humans who make mistakes, who have faults, who err.
I don't understand how someone can see a newborn baby, see an awesome sunset, hear waves crash onto a beach, experience the different seasons, smell (put whatever nice aroma here) and still not believe in the God of Creation.
Being a Christian doesn't mean we become perfect. It means knowing we aren't and knowing that we cannot live life on our own. It means knowing that we don't know everything. That bad things are going to happen, sometimes for no good reason. That some things we may never understand. That some things are unexplainable. That we have Someone to serve and to talk with. That we have Someone to model our lives after. But when we do mess up, we are forgiven. For perfection will only come after our human self dies.
That Someone is Jesus Christ. God's Son, who humbled Himself in setting aside His authority and powers of God and heaven to become one with us. That Someone who suffered, who ached, who endured pain, who was abused and made fun of, rejected, tempted daily but stayed true to His Father (our Father). So He knows what we go through and put up with and endure for He experienced it while here on earth. The two things that require faith are the two miracles: His virgin birth and his resurrection.
Why do people have a hard time believing that God is more than just a God of love?
Wonder why people tell themselves that there is no afterlife of an eternity in heaven or hell?
Wonder why people want to ignore, disbelieve, construe, omit, or add to Scripture? It is what it is.
Wonder why people preach about people's rights and freedom but want to take those same rights and freedom away from Christians?
All the hate shown by Christians through the years, all the things done in Christ's Name, has really hurt and screwed up what unChristians believe Christianity to be. And all the Christians trying to create their own beliefs, their own twist, adding laws and putting a denominational stamp of godly approval on it hasn't helped either.
I wonder if your muse is pondered by those belonging to the various other religions, all of which follow their own beliefs. Who can say which one is truth? We know each will tell you it is their faith that leads to eternal life or the like.
ReplyDeleteIs it fair to say that because one does not believe in the faith of the other, that the person will be condemed to damnation of some sort.
If everything in the universe is made up of the same molecular contents then why not believe that we are a product of the universe and the higher being is the stars that we come from. Whose to say the "image of God" spoken about in the Bible is not just that, star dust. It would be so much easier to just be that, rather than the complicated beings we have become.
Perhaps the hardest things to comperehend are the truths that are staring us in the face. What if eternal life or reincarnation were as simple as the gift we come blessed with. The gift of reproducing life on earth. I am my father and my mother and my child is the same. Myself, and every being I came from will live on in the future as the family I leave behind. This truth can not be questioned.
The gift of reproducing life = relationship. Relationship is the reason we are all here. God could have had the universe all to himself after He created it but He wanted to share it. Therefore He made Adam from the 'wilderness' of the earth and then Eve from Adam in the garden. He wanted relationship with the stewards of the earth. Many people question what truth is. I personally find the Bible to be truth. It has every answer to every question life throws at you. It cannot mislead you.
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